Colchicine analogues that bind reversibly to tubulin define microtubular requirements for newly synthesized protein secretion in rat lacrimal gland.

abstract：:Hypoxia, reoxygenation, and the tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor pervanadate activate the transcription factor NF-kappaB, involving phosphorylation of its inhibitor IkappaB-alpha on tyrosine 42. This modification does not lead to degradation of IkappaB by the proteasome/ubiquitin pathway, as is seen on stimulation of ce...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Béraud C,Henzel WJ,Baeuerle PA

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Arteriovenous (AV) malformation (AVM) is a devastating condition characterized by focal lesions of enlarged, tangled vessels that shunt blood from arteries directly to veins. AVMs can form anywhere in the body and can cause debilitating ischemia and life-threatening hemorrhagic stroke. The mechanisms that underlie AVM...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Murphy PA,Kim TN,Huang L,Nielsen CM,Lawton MT,Adams RH,Schaffer CB,Wang RA

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidermal changes that occur in human cutaneous immune responses have been investigated in the tuberculin reaction and in the lesions of tuberculoid and lepromatous leprosy and cutaneous leishmaniasis. In each situation, there was a dermal accumulation of monocytes and T cells, and the epidermis exhibited thickeni...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Kaplan G,Witmer MD,Nath I,Steinman RM,Laal S,Prasad HK,Sarno EN,Elvers U,Cohn ZA

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface Ig (sIg) of follicular lymphoma (FL) is vital for tumor cell survival. We found previously that the Ig in FL is unusual, because the variable region genes carry sequence motifs for N-glycan addition. These are introduced by somatic mutation and are tumor specific. Unexpectedly, added glycans terminate at high ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Coelho V,Krysov S,Ghaemmaghami AM,Emara M,Potter KN,Johnson P,Packham G,Martinez-Pomares L,Stevenson FK

更新日期：2010-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Many Drosophila non-long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons actively transpose into internal, gene-rich regions of chromosomes but do not transpose onto chromosome ends. HeT-A and TART are remarkable exceptions; they form telomeres of Drosophila by repeated transpositions onto the ends of chromosomes and never tra...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Rashkova S,Karam SE,Pardue ML

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans, septal defects are among the most prevalent congenital heart diseases, but their cellular and molecular origins are not fully understood. We report that transcription factor Tbx5 is present in a subpopulation of endocardial cells and that its deletion therein results in fully penetrant, dose-dependent atria...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Nadeau M,Georges RO,Laforest B,Yamak A,Lefebvre C,Beauregard J,Paradis P,Bruneau BG,Andelfinger G,Nemer M

更新日期：2010-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The identity of cells that mediate positive selection of CD8(+) T cells was investigated in two T cell receptor (TCR) transgenic systems. Irradiated beta(2)-microglobulin mutant mice or mice with mutations in both the K(b) and D(b) genes were repopulated with fetal liver cells from class I(+) TCR transgenic mice. In t...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Zerrahn J,Volkmann A,Coles MC,Held W,Lemonnier FA,Raulet DH

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of 3T3-L2 fibroblasts in medium containing 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine prevents the spontaneous cytodifferentiation of these cells into adipose cells. Treatment of bromodeoxyuridine-suppressed cultures at confluence with 1-methyl-3-isobutylxanthine, a promoter of the adipose conversion, results in differentiation o...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Russell TR

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA extracted from Dane particles has been characterized by gel electrophoresis and restriction enzyme cleavage with endonuclease R-HaeIII (from Hemophilus aegyptius). Dane particle DNA is proposed to be a double-stranded circular DNA approximately 3600 nucleotides in length containing a single-stranded gap of 600-210...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Summers J,O'Connell A,Millman I

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three types of protein kinase C were purified from rabbit brain cytosol. Each type has a molecular mass of approximately 80 kDa and serves as a receptor for phorbol esters. Polyclonal antibodies produced to two protein kinase C types were relatively type-specific, indicating that these proteins have unique antigenic d...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Jaken S,Kiley SC

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four macrocyclic cystine-knot peptides of 29-31 residues, kalata, circulin A and B (CirA and CirB), and cyclopsychotride, have been isolated from coffee plants but have undetermined physiological functions. These macrocycles and 10 of their analogs prepared by chemical synthesis were tested against nine strains of mic...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Tam JP,Lu YA,Yang JL,Chiu KW

更新日期：1999-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmentally regulated genes in Drosophila, which are conserved through evolution, are potential candidates for key functions in biological processes such as cell cycle, programmed cell death, and cancer. We report cloning and characterization of the human homologue of the Drosophila seven in absentia gene (HUMSIAH...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Nemani M,Linares-Cruz G,Bruzzoni-Giovanelli H,Roperch JP,Tuynder M,Bougueleret L,Cherif D,Medhioub M,Pasturaud P,Alvaro V,der Sarkissan H,Cazes L,Le Paslier D,Le Gall I,Israeli D,Dausset J,Sigaux F,Chumakov I,Oren M,

更新日期：1996-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cones show briefer light responses than rods and do not saturate even under very bright light. Using purified rod and cone homogenates, we measured the activity of guanylate cyclase (GC), an enzyme responsible for cGMP synthesis and therefore recovery of a light response. The basal GC activity was 36 times higher in c...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Takemoto N,Tachibanaki S,Kawamura S

更新日期：2009-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the pathogenic mechanism of dominant mutations affecting the carboxyl terminus of rhodopsin that cause retinitis pigmentosa, we generated five lines of transgenic mice carrying the proline-347 to serine (P347S) mutation. The severity of photoreceptor degeneration correlated with the levels of transgene expr...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Li T,Snyder WK,Olsson JE,Dryja TP

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The modern Old World Monkeys (Superfamily Cercopithecoidea, Family Cercopithecidae) can be traced back into the late Miocene, but their origin and subsequent diversification is obscured by the scarcity of terrestrial fossil sites in Africa between 15 and 6 Ma. Here, we document the presence of cercopithecids at 12.5 M...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Rossie JB,Gilbert CC,Hill A

更新日期：2013-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Two operators, spatially separated from each other and from the promoters, repress the gal operon when bound to Gal repressor. Conversion of either gal operator to a lac operator results in derepression, although both Gal and Lac repressors are present, suggesting that mere occupation of operator sites is not sufficie...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Haber R,Adhya S

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A site has been found that is required for repression of the Escherichia coli araBAD operon. This site was detected by the in vivo properties of deletion mutants. In vitro protection studies with DNase I and dimethylsulfate showed that araC protein can specifically bind in this area to nucleotides lying at position -2...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Dunn TM,Hahn S,Ogden S,Schleif RF

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invariant natural killer T cell (NKT) cells (iNKT cells) produce both T-helper 1 (Th1) and T-helper 2 cytokines in response to α-Galactosylceramide (α-GalCer) stimulation and are thought to be the important effectors in the regulation of both innate and adaptive immunity involved in autoimmune disorders, microbial inf...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Wu TN,Lin KH,Chang YJ,Huang JR,Cheng JY,Yu AL,Wong CH

更新日期：2011-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-molecule manipulation techniques reveal that stretching unravels individually folded domains in the muscle protein titin and the extracellular matrix protein tenascin. These elastic proteins contain tandem repeats of folded domains with beta-sandwich architecture. Herein, we propose by stretching two model sequ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Klimov DK,Thirumalai D

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The GTP/GDP nucleotide switch in Ras superfamily GTPases generally involves differential affinity toward downstream effectors, with the GTP-bound state having a higher affinity for effector than the GDP-bound state. We have developed a quantitative model of allosteric regulation of the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Leung DW,Rosen MK

更新日期：2005-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA from tumors of Nicotiana glauca initiated by strains of Agrobacterium rhizogenes was shown to contain sequences that are homologous to the root-inducing (Ri) plasmid of the bacterium. Two independently established tumor lines contained a similar portion of the Ri-plasmid. The Ri-plasmid also hybridized to DNA ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： White FF,Ghidossi G,Gordon MP,Nester EW

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rodent models of Parkinson disease in which transplants of dissociated rodent and human embryonic mesencephalic tissue, rich in dopamine neurons, have been studied, only 5-20% of the dopamine neurons survive the implantation procedure. We have investigated the effects of inhibiting free radical generation with two ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Nakao N,Frodl EM,Duan WM,Widner H,Brundin P

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:delta-Aminolevulinic acid (ALA) synthase [succinyl-CoA:glycine C-succinyltransferase (decarboxylating), EC 2.3.1.37] activity was detected in cell extracts of the unicellular green flagellate alga Euglena gracilis. The enzyme was identified by substrate and cofactor requirements, and activity was proportional to numbe...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Beale SI,Foley T,Dzelzkalns V

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitylation of histone H2B at lysine 120 (H2B-Ub) plays a critical role in transcriptional elongation, chromatin conformation, as well as the regulation of specific histone H3 methylations. Herein, we report a strategy for the site-specific chemical attachment of ubiquitin to preassembled nucleosomes. This allowed ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Holt MT,David Y,Pollock S,Tang Z,Jeon J,Kim J,Roeder RG,Muir TW

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We used cryo-electron tomography in conjunction with single-particle averaging techniques to study the structures of frozen-hydrated envelope glycoprotein (Env) complexes on intact Moloney murine leukemia retrovirus particles. Cryo-electron tomography allows 3D imaging of viruses in toto at a resolution sufficient to ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Förster F,Medalia O,Zauberman N,Baumeister W,Fass D

更新日期：2005-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-assembled heterocapsule 1.2, which is formed by the hydrogen bonds of tetra(4-pyridyl)-cavitand 1 and tetrakis(4-hydroxyphenyl)-cavitand 2, encapsulates 1 molecule of guests such as 1,4-diacetoxybenzene 3a, 1,4-diacetoxy-2,5-dimethylbenzene 3b, 1,4-diacetoxy-2,5-dialkoxybenzenes (3c, OCH(3); 3d, OC(2)H(5); 3e...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Kitagawa H,Kobori Y,Yamanaka M,Yoza K,Kobayashi K

更新日期：2009-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The thin layer of airway surface liquid (ASL) contains antimicrobial substances that kill the small numbers of bacteria that are constantly being deposited in the lungs. An increase in ASL salt concentration inhibits the activity of airway antimicrobial factors and may partially explain the pathogenesis of cystic fibr...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Zabner J,Seiler MP,Launspach JL,Karp PH,Kearney WR,Look DC,Smith JJ,Welsh MJ

更新日期：2000-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The cholesterol-dependent cytolysins (CDCs) constitute a large family of pore-forming toxins that function exclusively on cholesterol-containing membranes. A detailed analysis of the various stages in the cytolytic mechanism of three members of the CDC family revealed that significant depletion of cholesterol from the...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Giddings KS,Johnson AE,Tweten RK

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Nature is rife with networks that are functionally optimized to propagate inputs to perform specific tasks. Whether via genetic evolution or dynamic adaptation, many networks create functionality by locally tuning interactions between nodes. Here we explore this behavior in two contexts: strain propagation in mechanic...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Rocks JW,Ronellenfitsch H,Liu AJ,Nagel SR,Katifori E

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the GABA(A) receptor gamma2 subunit are associated with childhood absence epilepsy and febrile seizures. To understand better the molecular basis of absence epilepsy in man, we developed a mouse model harboring a gamma2 subunit point mutation (R43Q) found in a large Australian family. Mice heterozygous fo...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Tan HO,Reid CA,Single FN,Davies PJ,Chiu C,Murphy S,Clarke AL,Dibbens L,Krestel H,Mulley JC,Jones MV,Seeburg PH,Sakmann B,Berkovic SF,Sprengel R,Petrou S

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00